A Boat In Dry Dock
Where was this photograph captured? What is the name of these docks? Can you estimate a time period?
What type of boat is this? What do you know about boats like this? Do you have experience with boats like this one in Panama? Did you or anyone you know build or fix boats in Panama like in this photograph?
If you have any information about this boat or dry dock, please share with us in the comments section!
4 Comments
Old Chuck
Reblogged this on Grumpy's Gruesome ALS Grumblings and commented:
This is a Panama Canal tugboat most likely in the dry dock at the Industrial Div. in Cristobal on the Atlantic coast. Tugs are in dry dock for a complete overhaul or to repair a element that was damaged during operations. It might be a full overhaul because none of the identifying marks can be seen. There are 2 other dry docks located on the Pacific coast.
Skip Mendenhall
This appears to be the tug boat “Gatun”. There is another picture of the tug in Balboa harbor with the same long ladder on the starboard side, leaning towards the wheel house. The other picture show a darker paint scheme (gray perhaps), this picture may have been taken just after the tug’s super structure was painted white and the hull painted blue. There is a canopy covering the upper deck towards the stern of the tug. The tug Arraijan had this same canopy on the stern.
JOSÉ Ricardo Espino
Tug San Pablo, Panamá Canal. Dry dock Mount Hope.
I did use to work as engineer training in 1980.
Cooper Bessemer engines. Diésel eléctrico Tug.
Robert Dillon
I think that this might be the “San Pablo” which is now a reef off the coast of Panama City, Florida.
There is a video by the guy who got the horn off the boat before its demise. In that video are several still shots that match this vessel.
See here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfzrucG6okY